Gone

Practice isn't simply about the hours you put in. It's about concentration... But the big thing to take away from practicing is learning not to waste time.

She told me that the faster you prepare your fingers to play, the slower your mind must feel. You have to feel as if you have all the time in the world. Hurry, and you will stumble. Take your time, and it's all there, stretching before you, the huge space of the fingerboard, your fingers poised and the notes just waiting to be shaped

Times are changing, have changed. Violins like my Strad are not bought to play as they once were. They are bought as an investment. They sit in safes, lie locked up behind fireproof doors and impregnable security tumblers. They are brought out, handled with white cotton gloves, turned reverentially, examined, admired, then returned to the prison of safety Note: Love the "prison of safety"